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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

HOME IN FLORIDA - ANJANETTE DELGADO and ACHY OBEJAS

  • S2021E171
  • 28:25
  • November 8th 2021

: “Home in Florida; Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness” Anjanette has said “I wanted a new body of work now of uprootedness about someone living in an environment that’s not his.” Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican novelist and journalist whose work in both fiction and nonfiction focuses on heartbreak and social justice. She is the author of “The Heartbreak Pill”; winner of the Latino International Book Award, and of “The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho”; an Indiefab finalist for best multicultural book of the year. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies as well as in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Vogue, New York Times, Hong Kong Review, NPR, HBO, and elsewhere. She holds many other awards and honors. She holds MFA in creative writing from Florida International University and lives in Miami. 

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Diversity & Inclusion Forum presents multiple interview formats of interesting people covering a wide spectrum of subjects with relevance to Diversity. We are bringing these many people into focus with Inclusion and the goal of helping the path to Equality. The people are multi ethnic from many backgrounds or groups, with their lifestyles by choice or circumstances.